Piracetam has a bell shaped dose responce. You went way over the bell. Also the headache you had was based on a cholinerginic responce most likely. What was your choline source? Alpha GPC and CDP choline are much better sources than lecithin and the salts (choline bitartrate and choline chloride).
4800 mg divided up into two or three doses per day is the most commonly prescribed dosage. Also, don't look for a "oh my god! I am so smart now I can formulate the unifying equation for all things" pill. Continue to dose out piracetam at the above level and supplement it with a high grade choline source that will penetrate the blood brain barrier.
Cheers!
Well getting no response
at all is certainly frustrating; that kind of reminds me of the way I get treated a lot by some people I care a lot about that I think I am quite patient with. Getting no explicit response is annoying, and if you consider yourself sensitive that might be so frustrating that one might even consider switching to another 'racetam.
These threads are not quite ready for public viewing yet (I have not made the conclusions enticing enough visually for it to appear interesting); but for now you can "take a look" at
aniracetam, oxiracetam, and (even though it is unavailable right now in economical pharma grade powder form, the most potent yet least researched 'racetam on a mg/kg basis);
pramiracetam.I wouldn't recommend this route right away though; try listening to lemon's advice for now, but if you continue getting no response from piracetam then consider, "taking a look" at the other 'racetams; and I guess for now, because you have yet to try these three, that means at least you have options if piracetam (which is certainly the most researched nootropic I currently know of) ultimately proves to be ineffective.
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Edited by nootropi, 26 January 2005 - 03:56 AM.